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40-533: La Luz Pottery Factory is a former factory in La Luz, New Mexico . The buildings, including three houses, an adobe warehouse and kiln, a clay processing plant, and storerooms, were built circa 1929. The factory, founded by Rowland Hazard, made roof and floor tiles as well as pots until it closed down in 1942. The tiles were used in buildings like the Albuquerque Little Theatre . The complex has been listed on

80-638: A few weeks within that span. This confusion of the historical record appears to have been subsequently resolved by researchers Amy Colwell Bluhm and Cora Finch who, though working independently, were both aided substantially by Hazard family letters and papers in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University . According to both Bluhm and Finch, these Hazard family documents clearly place Rowland in Jung's care for some months beginning in 1926 rather than 1930 or 1931. It appears likely that Wilson

120-742: A large ranch and farm in the canyon areas above La Luz. He had the Coronado Lodge constructed as a hunting lodge in Cottonwood Canyon out of native stone in the early 1920s. Hazzard also established the La Luz Pottery Works after discovery of rich clay deposits in La Luz Canyon. The pottery works were well known for the manufacture of clay roof tiles and other architectural components such as chimney pots as well as extremely large pottery vessels. The pottery works supplied contractors nationwide at

160-587: A lay therapist of the psycho-spiritual therapeutic effort known as the Emmanuel Movement . Though Rowland is not named, his experience with Jung is described in the book Alcoholics Anonymous . According to this account, Jung pronounced Rowland a chronic alcoholic and therefore hopeless and beyond the reach of medicine as it was at the time (a credible opinion, considering Jung's role in the early development of psychoanalysis and then, after he left, of analytical psychology ). The only hope Jung said he could offer

200-461: A leading role in the formation of the Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation (later AlliedSignal , then Honeywell following a 1999 merger with that company ). From 1921 until 1927 he was affiliated with Lee, Higginson and Company, a New York banking firm. He organized La Luz Clay Products Company near his ranch in La Luz, New Mexico . Later in his career, he became an executive vice president of

240-531: A series of circumstances that led to Bill's own recovery from alcoholism in late 1934. Bill Wilson went on, with Dr. Robert H. ("Dr. Bob") Smith of Akron, Ohio , to carry the Oxford Group message of spiritual recovery to other alcoholics. The group of recovering alcoholics founded by Wilson and Smith would later break away from the Oxford Group to become Alcoholics Anonymous by 1939. The Oxford Group renamed itself Moral Re-Armament in 1938, and largely faded from

280-518: A time when the Spanish Colonial Revival architectural style was at its height. Both the Coronado Lodge and the pottery works remain as fine examples of this type of architecture. The largest employer in the surrounding area is Holloman Air Force Base. La Luz itself is largely residential and agricultural in land use but a small market is located on the state maintained road that connects the village to Highway 70. La Luz has long been known for

320-551: Is today Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), where he is remembered as "Rowland H.," though Rowland himself never actually joined AA. His own efforts at recovery were markedly influenced by his consultation with pioneering psychologist Carl Jung and his subsequent involvement with the Oxford Group , one of the most highly visible Christian Evangelical movements of the 1920s and '30s. Recent research by R.M. Dubiel further suggests that Rowland may have also been treated by Courtenay Baylor ,

360-677: The National Register of Historic Places since May 29, 1979. This article about a property in New Mexico on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . La Luz, New Mexico La Luz is a census-designated place (CDP) in Otero County , New Mexico , United States. The population was 1,615 at the 2000 census . It is located immediately north of Alamogordo and lies in

400-724: The Rhode Island state senate (1914–1916), Rowland Hazard III was primarily a businessman throughout his career. He was active in the Hazard family's primary enterprise, the Peace Dale Manufacturing Company , until its sale to M.T. Stevens and Sons in 1918. He was also involved in the Solvay Process Company and the Semet-Solvay Company . Rowland III was instrumental in completing his father's ambition to play

440-616: The Sacramento Mountains . The waters of La Luz and Fresnal creeks are used by both the much larger city of Alamogordo, just to the south of La Luz and by La Luz in a ditch or acequia system. The City of Alamogordo has constructed a large reservoir to the south of La Luz to impound these waters. Native Americans lived in the area for thousands of years prior to the arrival of the Spanish in the late 16th Century. The Mescalero Apache homelands covered an area of south-central New Mexico including

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480-528: The Alamogordo district on July 1, 1959. [REDACTED] Media related to La Luz, New Mexico at Wikimedia Commons Rowland Hazard III Rowland Hazard III was born into one of Rhode Island's oldest and most prominent families, the Hazard family . He was the eldest of five children of Rowland Gibson Hazard II (1855–1918) and Mary Pierrepont Bushnell (1859–1936). Although several generations of Hazard men bore

520-704: The Bristol Manufacturing Company, a maker of precision instruments based in Waterbury, Connecticut . He was a director with several companies in addition to Allied Chemical and Dye, including the Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company, the Interlake Iron Company, and Merchant's Bank of Providence, Rhode Island . Rowland Hazard III's struggles with alcoholism led to his direct involvement in the chain of events that gave rise to what

560-510: The CDP was $ 15,258. About 10.9% of families and 13.8% of the population were below the poverty line , including 30.2% of those under age 18 and 9.3% of those age 65 or over. It is zoned to Alamogordo Public Schools . La Luz Elementary School is the zoned elementary school of the area, while Chaparral Middle School is the zoned middle school. Alamogordo High School is the district's comprehensive high school. La Luz School District consolidated into

600-477: The CDP. The population density was 150.7 inhabitants per square mile (58.2/km ). There were 738 housing units at an average density of 68.9 per square mile (26.6/km ). The racial makeup of the CDP was 84.71% White , 0.43% African American , 1.24% Native American , 0.56% Asian , 10.40% from other races , and 2.66% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 31.70% of the population. There were 648 households, out of which 31.0% had children under

640-640: The Light). Early maps of the area include this notation and La Luz Canyon may have served as an early pass over the Sacramento Mountains connecting with the Peñasco river, which eventually flows into the Pecos River near present-day Artesia, New Mexico. The Sacramento Mountains reach a height of 9,000 feet. It is well documented that a large group of Hispanic settlers came to the area around 1864 leaving villages along

680-481: The Lincoln County War. The arrival of the railroad in the area brought rapid change to the area. The railroad reached El Paso, ninety miles to the south, in 1882. Charles B. Eddy and partners constructed a branch line from El Paso northward to exploit the timber resources of the Sacramento Mountains and coal deposits further north near present-day White Oaks, New Mexico. The establishment of the railroad resulted in

720-448: The Oxford Group in a 1954 talk, transcribed and recorded in Volume 18 of his Collected Works, The Symbolic Life. More recently, scholars have questioned this traditional account. In a 1954 recollection of his early life and the beginnings of AA, Bill Wilson stated that "A well-known American businessman named Rowland Hazard had gone to Zurich, Switzerland, probably in the year 1930 [...] as

760-444: The Oxford Group. Ebby had been a "drinking buddy" of Wilson's over many years. By late 1934, Wilson was on the verge of total alcoholic collapse, living off his wife's income in the couple's Brooklyn , New York , home, when Ebby paid him a visit. Ebby shared with Bill the message of recovery through the application of spiritual principles, famously encouraging Bill to choose his own conception of God. This visit with Ebby set in motion

800-538: The Oxford Groupers were able to arrange for Ebby's release into their care. This led to Ebby's acceptance of the principles of the Oxford Group and his own sobriety. Encouraged in the example of personal evangelism, Ebby later sought out an acquaintance of his own. Bill (William G.) Wilson was raised in Vermont near the summer homes of Rowland Hazard, Ebby Thacher and others who had found release from their alcoholism in

840-737: The Rio Grande in the vicinity of present-day Socorro, New Mexico, after devastating floods had occurred. These settlers founded the Village of Tularosa along the banks of Tularosa Creek and established a large acequia system and agricultural area. Anglo settlers arrived in increasing numbers in the area especially after the Civil War with some establishing large ranches in the Tularosa Basin and nearby areas to supply beef to nearby Fort Stanton. Increasing rivalries between various competing factions would result in

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880-520: The Sacramento Mountains and the Tularosa Basin. Today, the ancestral homelands of the Apache have been reduced to those lands contained in the Mescalero Apache Reservation, approximately 30 miles northeast of La Luz. There is some dispute over the founding of La Luz. By some accounts, it was founded by Franciscan friars as early as the 18th Century and called Nuestra Señora De La Luz (Our Lady of

920-420: The age of 18 living with them, 54.9% were married couples living together, 12.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.5% were non-families. 23.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.49 and the average family size was 2.95. In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 26.6% under

960-459: The age of 18, 6.8% from 18 to 24, 26.6% from 25 to 44, 24.9% from 45 to 64, and 15.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 93.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.4 males. The median income for a household in the CDP was $ 28,625, and the median income for a family was $ 29,719. Males had a median income of $ 30,213 versus $ 21,563 for females. The per capita income for

1000-574: The area. Upon learning that Ebby was on the verge of commitment to the Brattleboro Retreat (the former Vermont Asylum for the Insane ) on account of his drinking, Rowland and fellow Oxford Group members Shep (F. Shepard) Cornell and Cebra Graves sought out Ebby and shared with him their Oxford Group recovery experiences. Graves was the son of the family court magistrate in Ebby's case, Collins Graves, and

1040-576: The basis of assumption for dating Rowland's initial consultation with Jung in the approximate period of 1930–31. More recent investigation into the historical record does not support this timing. Based on research of Hazard family records of the Rhode Island Historical Society , author Richard M. Dubiel suggested in a 2004 work that the period during which Rowland could have consulted with Jung in this time frame may have been limited to some time between June and September 1931, and perhaps only

1080-410: The court of last resort [...]. Hazard remained with Jung a whole year; desperately wanting to resolve his problem..." Wilson reiterates this approximate timing in his 1961 letter to Jung: "Having exhausted other means of recovery from his alcoholism, it was about 1931 that [Hazard] became your patient. I believe he remained under your care for perhaps a year." These recollections of Bill W. have become

1120-577: The eastern edge of the Tularosa Basin and on the western flank of the Sacramento Mountains . Until 1848, La Luz was a part of Mexico . The CDP gets its name from the Spanish word for "light". According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 10.7 square miles (28 km ), all land. La Luz sits at the opening of La Luz Canyon Creek, whose headwaters are high in

1160-569: The example of personal change when he came in contact with an alcoholic named Ebby Thacher while Rowland and two other Oxford Group members who knew Thacher were summering in Glastenbury, Vermont , in 1934. Thacher was the son of a prominent New York family who, like many well-to-do Eastern US families of the period, summered in New England , forming lifelong associations and friendships with other "summer people" as well as with permanent residents of

1200-405: The founding of Alamogordo in 1898 just a few miles south of La Luz. Eddy then constructed a branch into the Sacramento Mountains that went through La Luz and climbed to approximately 9,000 feet within the span of a few miles. Often referred to as the "Cloud Climbing Railroad" it was an engineering marvel. The mountain section of the railroad was dismantled in the early 1940s. The Village of Cloudcroft

1240-418: The many fruits that are grown in the area including figs, apricots, plums and peaches. Apples, cherries, and pears are grown in the higher elevations in the canyon areas to the east of the village. The surrounding area also has a number of vineyards and pistachio groves. A number of artists also reside in the area. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,615 people, 648 households, and 463 families residing in

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1280-611: The name Rowland , the Rowland Hazard born in 1881 adopted the name suffix "III" to distinguish himself from his well-known forebears. According to biographers, Rowland III was known as "Roy" to the Hazard family. He was a graduate of the Taft School and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University in 1903, where he was a member of the Elihu Club at the time it became a secret Senior Society. Among his Yale classmates, he

1320-567: The prominence it had enjoyed in the 1930s. Moral Re-Armament would eventually become a non-religious humanitarian organization, changing its name to Initiatives of Change in 2001. This version of Rowland's story is commonly accepted within AA, confirmed in substance if not in detailed fact by evidence such as an exchange of letters between Bill Wilson and Carl Jung in 1961, in which Jung acknowledged his acquaintance with "Rowland H." Jung also made reference to his treatment of an unnamed alcoholic member of

1360-679: The so-called Emmanuel Movement . Inspired by Episcopal clergyman Dr. Elwood Worcester of Boston 's Emmanuel Episcopal Church , the Emmanuel Movement began in 1906 as an effort to treat what would today be regarded as psychological afflictions and disorders such as alcoholism through the application of spiritual principles. The work of the Emmanuel Movement was largely carried on by Baylor after Worcester's death. Rowland's sobriety does not appear to have been continuous, at least in early years. Bluhm and Finch find suggestions in Hazard family letters of Rowland's possible alcoholic relapse during

1400-533: The summary of the Sermon on the Mount : absolute honesty, absolute purity, absolute unselfishness, and absolute love. The Group was also dedicated to the vigorous pursuit of personal change, and to extending the message of hope through change by means of "personal" evangelism: one changed person sharing his experience with another (see Oxford Group ). Rowland was aware of the Oxford Group emphasis on personal evangelism through

1440-454: Was established in the Sacramento Mountains and offered residents of El Paso an escape from the heat during the summer. Eddy's partner and lawyer for the railroad, William Ashton Hawkins, established a farm and large home which still stands in La Luz. In the early Twentieth Century, Rowland Hazard III (1882–1945), the heir of an industrial fortune from Rhode Island, came to the area and established

1480-511: Was for a life-changing "vital spiritual experience"—an experience which Jung regarded as a phenomenon. Jung further advised that Rowland's affiliation with a church did not spell the necessary "vital" experience. This prognosis so shook Rowland that he sought out the Oxford Group, an Evangelical Christian movement prominent in the first half of the twentieth century. The Oxford Group was dedicated to what its members termed "the Four Absolutes" as

1520-668: Was known as "Ike" or "Rowley." Hazard married Helen Hamilton Campbell (1889–1946), a graduate of Briarcliff Manor College and daughter of a Chicago banker, in October 1910. The couple divorced in 1929, but remarried in 1931. They had one daughter, Caroline Campbell Hazard (1911–1953), and three sons, Capt. Rowland Gibson Hazard (1917–1944), Peter Hamilton Hazard (1918–1944), and Charles Ware Blake Hazard (1920–1995). Two of their sons, Capt. Rowland G. and Peter Hamilton Hazard, were killed in World War II . The pioneering psychiatrist Carl Jung

1560-589: Was known to two of Rowland Hazard III's early friends. Yet it was Hazard's famous encounter with Jung that began alcoholics’ connection with the Oxford Group. Hazard is also attributed as the commissioner of the oldest boy scout troop in Rhode Island, Troop 1 Wakefield in South Kingstown. Like his father, Hazard was a member of the Rhode Island Society of Colonial Wars . Although he briefly served in

1600-403: Was simply repeating Cebra G.'s (inaccurate) recollection of the dates of Rowland's initial treatment by Jung. These more recent investigations also shed additional light on Rowland's treatment beyond his consultation with Jung. In his 2004 work, Dubiel also discovered evidence that Rowland was likely treated in the early 1930s by Courtenay Baylor , himself a recovering alcoholic and proponent of

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